1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick . 2And Jeroboam said to his wife , Arise , I pray thee , and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam ; and get thee to Shiloh : behold , there is Ahijah the prophet , who spake concerning me that I should be king over this people . 3And take with thee ten loaves , and cakes , and a cruse of honey , and go to him : he will tell thee what shall become of the child . 4And Jeroboam ’s wife did so , and arose , and went to Shiloh , and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see ; for his eyes were set by reason of his age . 5And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, Behold , the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son ; for he is sick : thus and thus shalt thou say unto her ; for it will be , when she cometh in , that she will feign herself to be another woman . 6And it was so , when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet , as she came in at the door , that he said , Come in , thou wife of Jeroboam ; why feignest thou thyself to be another ? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
The Death of Jeroboam's Son
7Go , tell Jeroboam , Thus saith Jehovah , the God of Israel : Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people , and made thee prince over my people Israel , 8and rent the kingdom away from the house of David , and gave it thee ; and yet thou hast not been as my servant David , who kept my commandments , and who followed me with all his heart , to do that only which was right in mine eyes , 9but hast done evil above all that were before thee , and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images , to provoke me to anger , and hast cast me behind thy back : 10therefore , behold , I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam , and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel , and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam , as a man sweepeth away dung , till it be all gone . 11Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for Jehovah hath spoken it . 12Arise thou therefore, get thee to thy house : and when thy feet enter into the city , the child shall die . 13And all Israel shall mourn for him , and bury him ; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave , because in him there is found some good thing toward Jehovah , the God of Israel , in the house of Jeroboam . 14Moreover Jehovah will raise him up a king over Israel , who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day : but what ? even now .
The Reign of Jeroboam and Its Consequences
15For Jehovah will smite Israel , as a reed is shaken in the water ; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River , because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger . 16And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam , which he hath sinned , and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin . 17And Jeroboam ’s wife arose , and departed , and came to Tirzah : and as she came to the threshold of the house , the child died . 18And all Israel buried him , and mourned for him , according to the word of Jehovah , which he spake by his servant Ahijah the prophet . 19And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam , how he warred , and how he reigned , behold , they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel . 20And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years : and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead . 21And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah . Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign , and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem , the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , to put his name there : and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess . 22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed , above all that their fathers had done . 23For they also built them high places , and pillars , and Asherim, on every high hill , and under every green tree ; 24and there were also sodomites in the land : they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel . 25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam , that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ; 26and he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah , and the treasures of the king ’s house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made . 27And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass , and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard , who kept the door of the king ’s house . 28And it was so , that , as oft as the king went into the house of Jehovah , the guard bare them , and brought them back into the guard-chamber. 29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam , and all that he did , are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ? 30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually . 31And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David : and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess . And Abijam his son reigned in his stead .